Local runners to honor cancer survivor Ms. B in Jacksonville marathon on Sunday

Fifteen representatives of Chatham County’s legal community will join with a Tifton attorney and a local package shop’s employees Sunday in Jacksonville for the 26.2 With Donna National Breast Cancer Marathon to help defeat breast cancer.

Runners from the Circuit Public Defender’s office, the Chatham County attorney’s office, law students, attorney Stephen Delk of Tifton, and employees from Habersham Beverage Warehouse will run to repay Barbara Rogers, a mainstay at the Public Defender’s office and a four-time cancer survivor.

Ms. B, the origin of the runner’s team name, the “B Team,” will celebrate her one-year anniversary of being cancer free this month.

Her fellow employees rave about her can-do attitude to them, friends, church family and complete strangers.

Her attitude has been more of a cure than the radiation and chemotherapy, they say.

They are in her debt because, during her last bought with the disease, she was inspirational to her fellow employees, friends, church family and complete strangers. Her attitude was more of a cure than the radiation and chemotherapy. Ms. B (the origin of the runner’s team name, the “B Team”) will celebrate her one year anniversary of being cancer free this month.

Local runners will compete in either a 26.2 mile relay marathon or half marathon at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville.